Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
